dynaTrace just posted a really nice tutorial showing how to track client-side performance (JavaScript, DOM, render times, etc) automatically using Selenium. They do this by using their super-cool free AJAX edition of their product.
May 172010
When setting up monitoring jobs, there are often predictable time periods in which you want to change the behavior of a script or prevent it from running at all, without having to manually stop/start the monitoring job each time. For instance, you might want to prevent errors and alert emails during routine maintenance windows, or perhaps you’re only interested in site performance on weekdays during regular business hours. We’ve come up with solutions to a few common situations that will help jump start your scripts.
To demonstrate how you can use our new API to leverage deeper integration with your internal monitoring tools, we’re going to guide you through an example that connects Nagios (a ubiquitous open source monitoring tool) with BrowserMob’s web site monitoring service.
Getting it all setup:
Since this is intended to be a quick how-to, we’re going to assume that you already have a working Nagios installation behind your firewall and an active monitoring job with BrowserMob. Here at the BMob we eat our own dog food, utilizing our own monitoring service to monitor BrowserMob.com. For this example, we’ll use a monitoring job called “BMOB” for our Nagios integration.
The BrowserMob team is excited to launch our new API, giving customers access to all their data (including load test results and monitoring reports) through a simple programmatic interface. The API is still in beta and will likely change over the next few weeks, but we welcome everyone to take a look, kick the tires, and send us any feedback.
Currently the API is “read only”, allowing access to load test and monitoring data. We will be adding new services in the coming weeks, including endpoints for creating load tests, monitoring jobs, and working toward complete programmatic access to anything you can do on the BrowserMob website today.
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